MORE RIOTING IN ITALY

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 11

MORE RIOTING IN ITALY

Crowds Demonstrate Against France

CRISIS EXPECTED NEXT YEAR Nazis Pledge Support For Territorial Claims By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. LONDON, December 7. 'Fhe popularity of anti-French demonstrations is increasing with the Italian public. Demonstrations occurred in Naples. Turin. Florence, and other cities, thousands of students marching and singing, '.'Long live funis.’' Three thousand students at Messina marched to the French Consulate. professors led a procession of 1500 at Trapani, and similar scenes occurred in Perugia, Benevento, and Rome. The Press significantly announces that the. Under-Secretary for War is to inspect the defences of Sardinia, which is adjacent to Corsica. The Romo correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” points out that the growing popularity of. tlie anti-I'rench campaign is characteristic of all such campaigns since the creating of a war mentality preceding the invasion of Abysinnia. British And French View. r rhe views hold by French and British statesmen are not. far wrong in surmising that Italy and Germany will make astonishing demands early in the New Year. ( The Rome correspondent of ‘The Times” believes that, the campaign will not be unduly aggressive till the results of .Mr. Chamberlain’s visit are seen, and adds that, it must, be clear to Italy that, it will bo difficult, for Mr. Chamberlain to support legitimale demands if lhe Press is clamorously voicing territorial claims conflicting with mutual Anglo-Italian obligations. There is no doubt that M. Daladicr's successful handling of lhe French crisis set. back the organizers of tlie demonstration in the Chamber of Deputies. who expected it would coincide with the paralysis of France by a general strike. Rome-Berlin Axis. Meanwhile, the solidity of the RomeBerlin axis is the main I heme in both Italian and German papers, the Germans emphasizing that, the FrancoGerman declaration dot's not alter the fact that the Rome-Berlin axis is the key to German foreign policy, and simultaneously protesting against "disgraceful anti-1 talian demonstrations by Red mobs in Tunis and Corsica.” But they still do not mention the scenes in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on November 30. The Press in Rome implies that Berlin’s recognition of the extent of the reality of Itaio-German friendship means that when Italy formulates her colonial claims against France she will be supported by the lull weight of German diplomacy.

RIBBENTROP LEAVES PARIS New Franco-German Trade Pact Likely LONDON, December 7. ’i’lie visit to Baris of the German Foreign Minister. Herr von Ribbentrop, ended tonight without his haying a second political conversation with M. Bonnet, French Foreign Minister. Tonight's talk was devoted to financial and economic problems. It is reported that it was agreed that a new Franco-German trade pact shall be negotiated.

The Paris correspondent of the ••Daily Telegraph" says Unit the question of guaranteeing (he new Czechoslovak frontiers was also raised in Paris by Herr von Ribbentrop, who undertook to see M. Chvalkovsky, Czech Foreign Minister, after his return to Berlin.

Such of Ihf cable news on this piicre !|S is so h(':iil<‘tl has appended in “The, Times and is cabled to Australia and N<*w Zealand by special permission. U should he undcrstoii.l that the nninions are not those or "Tlio Times" unless expressly stated to